Originally posted by 69Boss302:


Sirius signed a deal worth 1/2 Billion dollars for 5 years to Howard Stern. His fan base is not as large anymore and he didn't have the pull he thought he would.



What are you talking about?? They've had double the amount of subscriptions in half the amount of time that they predicted. Last time i checked that is better than anyone thought.



Originally posted by 69Boss302:

Oprah's deal is worth $50 million but she has an audiesnce of 27 million and she is not exclusive to satellite radio and she talks about XM on her show. On her channel are also Tyra Banks and Martha Stewart. Neither of those 3 I really care for but they do have an audience base that is tremendous.




Stern's audience was also over 20 million. Are all of oprah's fans going to sign? no. Will a bunch? Maybe - but here's the zinger - her contract only has her doing 30 live minutes a week. Which means the rest of the week her station will be "filler" content. Reruns of her shows, and other junk. I wouldn't be to happy signing up to hear oprah, and getting stuff i could hear on tv for free. Learn to read between the lines.


Originally posted by 69Boss302:

Opie and Anthony are back on to fill a spot that Howard left and David Lee Roth tanked on. They aren't on for the entire morning like they are on XM so that means they will still be able to operate uncensored.




I'd like to see anyone fill sterns spot in the amount of time CBS gave roth to do it in. Granted, I don't much care for the guy, but nobody is going to build an audience in 3 months.


Originally posted by 69Boss302:

Sirius stocks aren't worth anything and do not show any positive trending the last I looked. XM showed similar trends but were worth more. There are only two companies in this sector and both react according to each other. If you have plenty of money, why not buy alot of Sirius stock? If they go up or split, you have a better chance to make moremoney. As I writ this Sirius is $4.87 vs. XM at $22.23.




Again, the boom only happened a couple of months ago. The quarter isn't even over yet is it?? (I dunno much about that stuff...) It's too soon to be looking at stock tickers. XM has been losing subscribers left and right where sirius has been gaining them. If things continue they should surpass xm by the end of the year. You talk about sirius bleeding money, but neglect to mention xm now bleeding money. A wound has been opened up in xm's market. They're giving away service and hardware (known fact!) to keep people subscribed, losing their "talent" and paying lots of money to personalities that will offer nothing in terms fresh and unique content to listeners. All of this has happened over the course of a couple of months...of course their stocks not going to plummet yet. Somethings gotta give.

You can talk about technology all you want (though i'm curious as to what you mean) The bottom line is that content sells and in terms of talk - Sirius has more personalities that radio talk people want to listen to. Stern, Bubba (the 2 most popular jocks throughout the US), Scottie farrell...and i believe they're working a deal with bonaduce. That's just sterns channel by itself! There's the BBC, Maxim, Playboy, Car talk...a bunch i can't even name.

The sports superiority doesn't even need to be mentioned.

Another thing that I personally like is that they seem to have picked up alot of former NYCdj's from Krock, KTU and even Z100. these are people i used to hear every day on the radio, and it's pretty nice to hear them again.

So basically, if don't mind hearing taped oprah and ellen degeneres shows, tyra banks' views on nothing, you hate sports, and your music taste isn't that broad then by all means go get XM! Hell, after a month you can threaten to cancel and it'll only cost you $3 a month!


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